PANG · CHALLENGE OF 2026-10-06

HOW THE DAY WENT

Tuesday, October 6 brought PANG, at level 5, and 11 people played.

DAMIFLOW won with 560 points; FERXO17 finished 110 behind. ELI rounds out the podium with 330.

Among the top 10, the average was 226 points, and one finished on zero.

THE SCREEN

It started on screen 2 of the 4 that PANG has; clearing it leads on to the rest, in an order that depends on the day. It was played at level 5, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Can-can (Galop infernal) de «Orphée aux enfers», Jacques Offenbach, 1858.

The infernal galop from Offenbach's operetta. The cancan of the Paris cabarets ended up adopting it as its anthem.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

Bubbles in four sizes bounce to a fixed height and split in two when the harpoon touches them. You walk, climb ladders and stand on the map's blocks; touching a bubble costs a life.

Bubbles drop items: double harpoon, hook (the harpoon sticks), rapid gun, shield, dynamite (everything to minimum size) and clock (everything slow for a while).

· As in Asteroids the small ones pay more: 40 against 10. But there are four times as many on screen, so split one at a time and finish it before opening the next big one.

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